Commenting on this posting about possible new London skyscrapers, Michael Jennings said:

I will eat my laptop if any of this actually happens.

But the Shard really does look as if it might be going ahead. When last I visited, just over a week ago, it still said things like this on the fence around the site:

Click on that right hand one and you’ll see that there’s a website, although I don’t recommend it.

On the site itself, this is the stage things had reached:

Now granted, demolition is one thing and actual construction is something else again, but something about the violence that has already been done to Kings Cross London Bridge railway station suggests, at least to me, that they really do mean to build this thing.